Gajeel's Attack

"Yo."

Just as Jet and Toroi were wrestling, a voice came from the darkness.

A man with a wild mane of black hair and multiple piercings in his face slowly emerged from the shadows. He looked at Jet and Toroi, baring his teeth at them.

"Who?!"

Jet and Toroi immediately sprang apart and got to their feet. Instinctively sensing danger, they both looked toward the man walking out of the darkness.

The figure emerging beneath the dim streetlamp was a member of the Phantom Lord guild, and one of the five Dragon Slayer Mages who had crossed the Eclipse Spirit Gate alongside Natsu, Wendy, and the others—Iron Dragon Gajeel!

"If I'm not mistaken, you two are mages from Fairy Tail, right?"

Gajeel looked at Jet and Toroi, raised his fist, and grinned with a ferocious expression.

Jet frowned and stared at Gajeel. "You... you're Phantom Lord's Iron Dragon Gajeel, aren't you? I see. You were behind what happened to our guild before!"

"That's right. It was me."

Gajeel grinned. "Your luck is terrible today. You ran into me, and I was just looking for someone to beat up."

Hearing Gajeel's words, Jet glanced at Toroi beside him, then sneered. "Just you? A rat that only dares to sneak attack at night."

Iron Dragon Gajeel was a mage with a notorious reputation in the Magic World. He was one of Phantom Lord's Four Elements—wind, fire, earth, and iron. If Jet or Toroi had encountered him alone, they would likely have been afraid, but with a companion beside them and only Gajeel facing them, they did not feel nearly as much fear.

It was worth mentioning that—

If Feng Ye had not interfered with the course of events, Rain Woman Juvia should have been Phantom Lord's Water Element. But because of Feng